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US job openings fall to 7.4 million, but work is still strong with fighting in Iran.

US job openings fall to 7.4 million, but work is still strong with fighting in Iran.

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August 5th, 2026

US job openings fall to 7.4 million, but work is still strong with fighting in Iran.

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U.S. job openings fell a little in June.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” 6์›”์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But the labor market stayed strong.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋…ธ๋™ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This happened after an economic shock from fighting in Iran.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๋ž€์—์„œ์˜ ์‹ธ์›€ ํ›„์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Strait of Hormuz closed.

ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์ด ๋‹ซํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Employers posted 7.36 million job openings.

๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ 736๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That is down from 7.54 million in May.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 5์›”์˜ 754๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์—์„œ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Labor Department said this on Tuesday.

๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” ํ™”์š”์ผ์— ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The numbers matched what economists expected.

๊ทธ ์ˆซ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Openings rose at warehouse, transportation, and utility companies.

์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฐฝ๊ณ , ์šด์†ก, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์œ ํ‹ธ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They also rose at federal agencies.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์—์„œ๋„ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But they fell at wholesalers and nondurable goods makers.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๋„๋งค์—…์ž์™€ ๋น„๋‚ด๊ตฌ์žฌ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Layoffs stayed about the same at 1.8 million.

ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ์•ฝ 180๋งŒ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The number of people quitting their jobs rose a little.

์ผ์„ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gross hiring rose to 5.3 million.

์ƒˆ ๊ณ ์šฉ์€ 530๋งŒ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But that is weaker than the jobs boom after pandemic lockdowns.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๋ด‰์‡„ ํ›„์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Then, monthly hiring often went over 6 million.

๊ทธ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋งค๋‹ฌ ๊ณ ์šฉ์ด ์ž์ฃผ 600๋งŒ ๋ช…์„ ๋„˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The job market has stayed strong.

์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is true even with high energy prices from the Iran conflict.

์ด๋ž€ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋†’์•„๋„ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Before the war, about 15 million barrels of Persian Gulf oil moved daily through the Strait of Hormuz.

์ „์Ÿ ์ „์— ํŽ˜๋ฅด์‹œ์•„๋งŒ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ์•ฝ 1500๋งŒ ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด์ด ๋งค์ผ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์„ ์ง€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iran has fired on ships trying to pass.

์ด๋ž€์€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์— ์ด์„ ์ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So far this year, employers have added about 92,000 jobs a month.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— ์•ฝ 92,000๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Last year, they added fewer than 10,000 a month.

์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 10,000๊ฐœ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ ๊ฒŒ ๋”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Labor Departmentโ€™s July jobs report comes out Friday.

๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€์˜ 7์›” ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It is expected to show gains of 100,000.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 100,000๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That is up from 57,000 in June.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 6์›”์˜ 57,000๊ฐœ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The unemployment rate is expected to stay at a low 4.2%.

์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์€ ๋‚ฎ์€ 4.2%์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A FactSet survey says this.

FactSet ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some economists think the โ€œbreak-evenโ€ rate for job growth could be near zero.

์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์˜ โ€œ์†์ต๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ โ€ ๋น„์œจ์ด 0์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Trumpโ€™s immigration crackdown and baby boomer retirements mean fewer people compete for work.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ด๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์†๊ณผ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„๋ถ ์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ์€ํ‡ด๋Š” ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋” ์ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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